Voices from the Odeyak / Michael Posluns.
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TextPublication details: Toronto : NC Press, 1993.Description: 1 online resource (230 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781554883721
- 1554883725
- 9781459720886
- 1459720881
- James Bay Hydroelectric Project -- Citizen participation
- Odeyak (Canoe)
- Projet hydro-électrique de la baie James -- Participation des citoyens
- Odeyak (Canot)
- James Bay Hydroelectric Project
- Hydroelectric power plants -- Environmental aspects -- Citizen participation
- Conservation of natural resources -- Citizen participation
- Political participation -- Québec (Province)
- Political participation -- United States
- Native peoples -- Great Whale River (Québec)
- Centrales hydroélectriques -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Québec (Province) -- Baleine, Vallée de la Grande rivière de la -- Participation des citoyens
- Conservation des ressources naturelles -- Québec (Province) -- Baleine, Vallée de la Grande rivière de la -- Participation des citoyens
- Autochtones -- Québec (Province) -- Baleine, Vallée de la Grande rivière de la
- Participation politique -- Québec (Province)
- Centrales hydroélectriques -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Participation des citoyens
- Participation politique -- États-Unis
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Sustainable Development
- NATURE -- Environmental Conservation & Protection
- Conservation of natural resources -- Citizen participation
- Political participation
- Québec
- Québec -- Great Whale River
- United States
- 333.7/2/09714111 22
- S934.C3 P67 1993eb
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Includes bibliographical references (page 224) and index.
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgement; The Cast of Characters; Maps; 1. Manhattan Transfer; 2. Building the Odeyak; Photo Section: The Odeyak Travellers and Their Hosts; 3. The Whale and the Seal -- Traditional Way of Life; 4. The Bulldozer -- James Bay 1; 5. A Canadian Wilderness; 6. Odeyak Discovers Lake Champlain; 7. The Clearwater's Blanket; 8. River Talk, Legal Talk; 9. The Power and the Glory; Bibliography; Index.
On April 23, 1990, after a five-week journey from Hudson Bay to the Hudson River, the Odeyak landed at the Battery for Earth Day. Half-Cree, half-Inuit, the 24-foot freighter canoe, plowing across the Manhattan seascape, was a strange small vessel build in the dark Arctic winter to carry a message from two First Nations of the northern wilderness to a reclaiming of Times Square for Mother Earth. Along with the Crees' and the Inuit's hopes and fears for their children and for the future of their river, the Odeyak carried a simple request. The Great Whale Hydroelectric Project, the first part o.
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